1665: French mathematician Pierre de Fermat dies, perhaps age 57 (his birth year is unknown). Journal des Sçavans declared in a February obituary that he “was one of the finest minds of the century.” (Journal des Sçavans — later Journal des Savants — was Europe’s earliest scientific journal and only a month old when it […]

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1665: French mathematician Pierre de Fermat dies, perhaps age 57 (his birth year is unknown). Journal des Sçavans declared in a February obituary that he “was one of the finest minds of the century.” (Journal des Sçavans — later Journal des Savants — was Europe’s earliest scientific journal and only a month old when it […]